South Korea had reported that medical and other units were being deployed by China to handle North Korean refugees and be ready for the after-effects of unforeseen circumstances such as a pre-emptive US strike on North Korea.

I was only a young girl when South Korean soldiers came to fight in my country of Vietnam as an ally of the United States during Vietnam War. At the time, my family owned a small tea shop near a Korean military base. Both my mother and I were raped...

For 21 days, from mid-July to 7th Aug., S Korea will host Bok Nal which will see upward of 15,000 dogs and thousands of cats, horrifically slaughtered for meat. Years of research into the African bush and dog meat trades have uncovered strong Asian input.

North Korea is notorious for inflammatory, warlike rhetoric against its rivals South Korea and the U.S. but had rarely used racial slurs in its verbal attacks. Pyongyang's tone has grown angrier in recent weeks as it threatens to conduct...

South Korea is an economic powerhouse and an ally of the United States. Every day you probably use products from South Korea without even realizing it; from cell phones designed by Samsung to cars manufactured by Hyundai.

"His Holiness Francis will make an Apostolic Trip to the Republic of Korea from 14 to 18 August 2014, on the occasion of the Sixth Asian Youth Day, to be held in the diocese of Daejeon," Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said in a statement.

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